Culture, Literature, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Judy Raymond ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
Sir Vidia Naipaul: A knight of celebrations
Sir Vidia Naipaul turns 75 on August 17, but in his homeland of Trinidad the celebrations have already begun. The St Augustine campus of...
Literature, Travel, British Virgin Islands
By Judy Raymond ● Issue 86 (July/August 2007)
Up close and impersonal
Caribbean Dreams: Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands, Michael Wissing, Regine Hodeige (Macmillan Education, ISBN-13: 978-1-405098-73-1,...
By Judy Raymond ● News & Online Exclusives
Blessed are the meek
Brown Face, Big Master by Joyce Gladwell (Macmillan Caribbean, ISBN 0-333-97430-1, 192 pp) The title of Joyce Gladwell’s autobiography...
By Judy Raymond ● News & Online Exclusives
Every man is an island
A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips (Secker & Warburg, ISBN 0-436-20564-5, 320 pp) When he’s not writing fiction, Caryl Phillips is a...
Culture, Arts, Trinidad and Tobago
By Judy Raymond ● Issue 113 (January/February 2012)
Last-minute mas
Feathers are in vogue for this year’s Carnival, but Richard “Ashraph” Ramsaran isn’t exactly following that trend. Though his band...
Culture, Literature, People, St. Lucia
By Brendan de Caires and Judy Raymond ● Issue 101 (January/February 2010)
Derek Walcott: making poetry from nothing
Many years ago, as the Founder Leader’s motorcade flashed past a rumshop in Georgetown, Wilson Harris – the inscrutable magus of...
Culture, Theatre and Dance, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Judy Raymond ● Issue 106 (November/December 2010)
Errol Jones: a gentleman and a player
Errol Jones possessed two qualities that are unusual in an actor, said Eunice Alleyne: greatness and humility. Other tributes bore out what...
By Kevin Baldeosingh and Judy Raymond ● Issue 111 (September/October 2011)
Book Reviews (September/October 2011)
A walk on the wild side of love Finding herself single in her late thirties, Trinidadian novelist Monique Roffey (The White Woman on a...